Today’s episode has a lot on its mind, thought it may not seem it at first, when Dawn opens with some questions on the nature of balls, and whether we need a new euphemism for courage. This leads her down a path that features a rumination on the nastiness of the elderly, and why sometimes old people forget that they were once young, gross people who did “inappropriate” things all the time. And then Dawn veers towards the more civics-minded, talking about why taxes, how owning property changes your voting habits, and Portland’s latest push to fluoridate the city’s water, even though the citizens of Portland don’t seem to actually want, or care, to pay the millions to have that happen. All that, and an examination on why it’s crazy for “Breaking Bad” viewers to think Skyler is the most loathsome character on the show.
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Don’t let them put the fluoride in there. I’m still dealing with the health effects of fluoride poisoning. Bad stuff.
Any news about the T-Shirts? I put in a pre-order back in June.
Shirts are in production! As soon as I get ‘em. you’ll get yours! Sorry for the long wait.
Water fluoridation is a program proven to work. We have over fifty years of data showing better dental health in areas that use it. Yes, individuals could use fluoride on their own children but many won’t and it’s the kids who suffer for it. We add iodine to salt, we put vitamin D in milk, this is just one more fix that works better when the whole population gets it by default. I’m sorry for C.J. Bilbrey’s fluoride issues but is is easier and cheaper for a few individuals to avoid drinking tap water than it is for everyone else to supplement with fluoride.
Bobby was bragging about the great taste of well water without mentioning any of the drawbacks. See how great the taste is once a deer falls through the well cover and drowns in your drinking water.
But Fluoride isn’t a nutrient. And we don’t put iodine and Vitamin D in tap water, because it wouldn’t have the same effect as selecting that product containing it off the shelf. What happens when something is added to tap water is that it is by default in nearly everything you eat and drink. You bathe in it, swim in it, cook with it, water your crops and livestock with it…the list goes on. Fluoride is a cumulitive toxin which happens to have some positive effect when used very carefully on teeth. It should never, ever be added to a municipal water system.
I doubt I’ll change Foible’s mind, but maybe someone else will benefit from this info.
OK, since we’re playing for the hearts and minds of Dawn’s massive army of devoted followers, I’ll enlist some help. Here’s the American Dental Association’s document on fluoride:
http://www.ada.org/sections/newsAndEvents/pdfs/fluoridation_facts.pdf
Here’s one tidbit from the document: Fluoridation costs between fifty cents and three dollars a year depending on the size of the community, it saves thirty-eight dollars in dental bills.
WOW! You mean the ADA is promoting it? Imagine that. I’m sure there is no bias there.
Why do most European countries and most of Canada say it’s poison? Do you think it’s because Fluoride is a bi-product found in industrial waste? Or because it’s been found to lower the IQ’s of children recieving regular doses and treatment? I really hate that I sound like a loon, but I’m really just telling the truth.
I’m a few episodes behind, slowly getting up to date again but…
When the word “tit-up” was mentioned in reference to better words to be used to reference to strength, I was quickly reminded of a word that is used in Hawai’i as part of the local dialect of pidgin English. That word is “tita” (pronounced “tit-ah”, similar to saying “bitter as “bittah)”. It’s used as slang:
“In Hawaiian Pidgin: 1) sometimes, a term of endearment used to call younger sisters, nieces, especially if said girls are sassy and precocious, 2) used more commonly to describe a really tough girl or woman, usually of Hawaiian or Polynesian ethnicity. In many ways, similar to a Chola. 3) A female moke.”
A “moke” is slang for a Hawaiian local boy, a beach bum, the guy who knows the people at the corner store all too well. For some, “the lazy ass”. Considered derogatory when used by non-Hawaiians. A tita who isn’t afraid to show her tita-ness will usually be described as someone who is “tita out”, as in “this is me, it’s in full display, I’m not going to hide who I am”.